15 hours ago, j swift said:

NBC soaps felt more experimental.  There were a lot of "firsts" on NBC soaps.  The first 60 minute soap.  The first soap written by staff who didn't have prior soap experience.  The first genre bending soaps.  Perhaps because NBC usually struggled to maintain ratings, they were more willing to try new things or take elements that had been tried on other networks and heighten them in order to attract new viewers (SFT's flood, AW's special single topic episodes, male heroes with perms).    

 

I initially read that as “gender bending”, which kinda still makes sense considering the stuff Passions was doing in its later years... 😏

On 5/2/2020 at 5:04 PM, NothinButAttitude said:

With DAYS, reading it about, the show starting off leaning more towards a Bell soap (seeing as Bill wrote the show many years), and then later started to waffle more ABC type dramas with more adventure. 

 

I wasn't alive during the Bill Bell era of Days but it is interesting as to how it began and how it would be best known as the supercouple/sci fi show, at least to daytime drama viewers of my generation anyway. I haven't found much online about Bill Bell's Days but I wonder if he reused any of his Days stories during Y&R's early years like he reused his early Y&R stories during B&B's early years.

8 minutes ago, kalbir said:

I haven't found much online about Bill Bell's Days but I wonder if he reused any of his Days stories during Y&R's early years like he reused his early Y&R stories during B&B's early years.

He sure loved the two siblings in love with the same person trope.

 

I’m pretty sure that the Brooks sisters on Y&R had a lot of similarities to the Peters brothers on DAYS, right down to the younger sibling writing a novel titled “In My Brother’s/Sister’s Shadow”

 

And I think he also used the woman trying to shoot someone but accidentally shoots her child story arc on Y&R too.

8 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:

And I think he also used the woman trying to shoot someone but accidentally shoots her child story arc on Y&R too.

 

I think Vanessa shot Lance while she was obviously aiming at Lorie.

I started watching soaps in the mid-90's and I usually paired up similar shows based on network and production companies. As previously stated, Another World was kind of an odd man out (a P&G soap similar in quality to GL/ATWT, but with a flair of NBC/DAYS production quality), and DAYS was kind of its own thing (unless you count Sunset Beach and Passions to be DAYS wannabes). 

 

Years later when I checked out episodes of Generations online, I was surprised to see how similar its production qualities and overall look resembled Sunset Beach. 

 

-AMC/OLTL/Loving (The City)

-GH/PC

-Y&R/B&B

-GL/ATWT

-DAYS/AW